Sen. Warren lashes out at Republicans, Trump over judges
Sen. Elizabeth Warren attacked Donald Trump as a “loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud” Thursday in a scathing broadside also aimed at the top two Republican leaders in Congress.
Highlighting Warren’s rapid succession of fusillades against Trump makes sense. After all, outside of this election, you don’t often get sitting United States senators publicly calling the other party’s presidential nominee a “racist bully” who has “never risked anything for anyone and who serves no one but himself”.
Earlier this week, Trump accused Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over a class-action lawsuit against Trump University, of potential bias based on his Mexican heritage, as the candidate has proposed building a wall along the Mexican border. “Pound the courts into submission to the rich and powerful”.
House Speaker Paul Ryan personally called Donald Trump Wednesday night to express his disapproval of Trump’s comments about a federal judge’s ethnicity, one day after Ryan publicly called the presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s remarks the “textbook” definition of racism.
Asked about Trump’s shift in tone and whether it would allay concerns of Republicans opposed to Trump, Republican strategist John Weaver said that was unlikely.
Warren didn’t take this approach.
Another conservative radio talk show host, Hugh Hewitt, said on air Wednesday that the GOP nominating Trump is like “ignoring stage 4 cancer” and that the party “ought to change the nominee”.
“The Clintons have turned the politics of personal enrichment into an art form for themselves”, Trump said Tuesday as he won the final five GOP primary elections.
After Trump picked up an impressive win at the IN primary last month, the two remaining Republican candidates, Texas Sen.
Trump has extended an olive branch to Sanders’ anti-establishment supporters, saying Tuesday: “We welcome you with open arms”.
Indiana Congressman Luke Messer Thursday questioned Donald Trump’s ability to control himself.
Trump’s longest-serving aides believe the billionaire’s unscripted style is what attracted voters in the first place, and they have no intention of abandoning that playbook in a general election fight. Trump calls Clinton by the nickname “Crooked Hillary” and often says she belongs behind bars for her use of a private email account and server during her time as secretary of state.
Trump has launched himself into the high-dollar Republican fundraising world in recent weeks, hosting and attending several fundraisers around his campaign rally schedule. In an interview with Politico, Clinton said she has the “highest regard” for the MA senator. “And ultimately can still move the country forward”, Mr. Obama said, according to a transcript provided by NBC. “In other words, to undermine the fundamental principle of equal justice under law”.